Best tools to record ingame videos?

[devnewton]

I'm looking for a good libre tool to record video of Newton Adventure.

I use apitrace but it introduces annoying lags.

I tried recordmydesktop and ffmpeg, but it's too slow...

[qubodup]

Is this for in-game recording by players for sharing online or for 'for-marketing' videos? I assume the latter and also that Linux is your platform.

I use ffmpeg, which performs all right for 2d games at 720p on my machine (see specs below). I fail to configure alsa for it, so I tend to install pulseaudio when I want to capture audio and uninstall it afterwards. My method: http://qubodup.wordpress.com/2012/01/03 ... -on-linux/ . Slow ffmpeg might be that you're using too intense an encoder on the fly.

glc was awesome for OpenGL/ALSA years ago but I haven't tried it in a while. There are repositories that imply that they work with Pulseaudio. Please let us know if you try something from that area and how it works.

Sys specs (what are yours?):

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Distro      Linux qbox 3.8.3-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 17 13:04:22 CET 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
CPU         model name : AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor
VGA         01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS780 [Radeon HD 3200] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
RAM         Mem: 3.6G 3.2G 426M 0B 101M 831M
GCC         gcc (GCC) 4.7.2
VGA driver  OpenGL vendor string: X.Org

Script for generating info: http://ompldr.org/vaHVoNw

[devnewton]

I dont have a fast computer (5 years old, intel gpu...).

I will try your ffmpeg settings and glc., thanks.

[alexander]

I use apitrace but it introduces annoying lags.

sounds like you are doing it wrong. I don't even know how that is possible, unless your computer lags when playing the game normally as well. you might want to ask for help on how to use apitrace, instead of finding a new tool. in my experience it is the vastly superior way to record games, provided that it is an option of course.

[DGMurdockIII]

here are some you can try the best one OBS Studio

OBS Studio - https://obsproject.com/

http://krut.sourceforge.net/

http://camstudio.org/

[Arthur]

Best one I've tried is SimpleScreenRecorder with its experimental OpenGL capture mode, performance is equal to what I see on the screen.

[Krislen]

You can try bandicam for recording in-game videos.

[smcameron]

Only one that worked worth a damn for me was OBS Studio. Others I tried (don't remember which other ones I tried, but I definitely tried "recordmydesktop" and "SimpleScreenRecorder") were all too slow or had problems with audio. For years before I found OBS (and before it existed) I resorted to pointing a camera at my screen. That being said, even OBS can falter if the game runs into some really heavy rendering territory (to be fair, that's the game's fault, not OBS). In general it is pretty good, and miles ahead of its competition (though last time I looked at the competition was probably 2017).

The other best option (besides a camera) is a hardware HDMI capture thing, which are surprisingly inexpensive. They do seem to lose a lot of color saturation though (also true for some software solutions, but OBS seems pretty good here). And you have to remember to route the audio through HDMI, or capture it separately.

(Jesus, I just realized OP is from 2013 -- just glad OP wasn't *me*).